While still laying upon the cold metal floor of the command center, Aviza stared up at the ceiling above her, unable to do much else until the disoriented feeling caused from the flashbang wore off. against her better judgemetn, Aviza ateempted to stand but was quickly knocked onto her back once more with a thunderous roar. Having no time to act, the Sister of Battle was lifted from the ground and thrown through the open bulkhead door with a thunderous roar. The power armored projectile managed to miss Zara and James by a couple of inches, though Lilith on the otherhand wasnt so lucky. Aviza had managed to colide with Lilith in mid-air, sending both of them flying past Zara and James, then coming to a sudden stop at the railing that overlooked the main entryway of the mansion with a crash that echoed through the halls. The next thing she knew was that she was laying ontop of Lilith in her power armor. Quickly moving herself off of Lilith, Aviza forced herself to stand and grabbed onto her weapon wich thankfully had ended up nearby to where she had landed. "Are you alright?" asked Aviza as she offered Lilith a hand to help her onto her feet. - Lilith swore in surprise as a heavy power armored weight smashed into her from behind, her shots going wild and slamming into walls and cielings. "What the actual fuck?" She hissed at the Sororitas laying on top of her as she strained to push herself out from under the sudden dead weight. "In the name of..." She didn't finish the thought, straining with all of her superhuman might to push her off so she could resume killing people. Thankfully she wasn't harmed too much, as plainly evidenced by the stream of information reaching her brain that told her she was bruised, and would be sore for a few weeks, but nothing that would keep her from continuing the slaughter. Suddenly, she became acutely aware of a hard object pressing into her side, and she yelped as she pushed herself off of the detanator for the full arsenal's worth of Melta Bombs on her person and planted throughout the building. Aviza finally heaved herself off with her painfully slow human reflexes as Lilith sucked in a gulp of air in response. "I'm not dead if that's what you mean." She snarked, "But the detonator was almost triggered, and I still have easily twenty melta bombs left on me." She let the words sink in for a moment before continuing, "You mentioned shelling the building? What's the fastest way out of here so we can do just that? And set off all these melta charges." - Lilith had apparently inadvertently turned herself into a suicide bomber, and the two of them had almost been blown up by her failure to pay attention to the fact that a stray round could quite possibly set off the explosives that were strapped onto her body. “Why do you have so many melta charges strapped to your body? One shot with a bolter in the right area and they could all detonate, turning you, myself and everything else into flaming debris.” said Aviza while glancing around her. “Damn it, where did those two head off to?” Zara and James had disappeared from sight while Lilith and Aviza recuperated after being thrown a good distance. They had left no sign as to where they had gone, it was as if they had vanished into thin air. “Shelling or using any weapon of the such is simply out of the question until we can recover Vastok and Zara. The rest of my squad is also inside of the mansion somewhere. We cannot call off board support until we are all accounted for and our objectives are secure.” A mere moment later, the com inside of Aviza's power armor quickly turned on, followed by the voice of a Euphorian officer, informing them to move quickly to Vastoks position and recover him before any of the intruders could remove the unconscious cult leader from the mansion and escape. Letting out a soft sigh, Aviza readied her heavy bolter, waiting for any sign of the incoming hostiles. "I have good news and bad news...." said Aviza, turning to Lilith. "Good news is that we are about to have more hostiles to shoot at, bad news is that they are Euphorians. They are going to be quite the challenge to bring down with bolter fire alone, do you have any ideas on how we can gain an advantage over them? - "Perhaps a stray bolt could've set them off, but you realize my intent was to avoid any and all open confrontation whatsoever. Besides, it's not as many as I had earlier, I've wired up exactly on hundred and ninety three melta charges at critical structural points - I wasn't made aware of the fact that anybody with artillery support would be coming here.You owe me an explanation for that, because I've been here for three months sniffing everything out on my lonesome." Lilith grumbled in response to Aviza as she dusted herself off. Nonetheless, she nodded as Aviza gave her a little more context. "Right, so, we grab this guy and his wife and book it with your friends, one of whom is presumably the person who turned you into an impromptu chainless wrecking ball. Gotcha." Lilith paused as Aviza listened in on a radio broadcast presumably coming from the guards of this place. When she was updated on the new situation she grinned a Daemonic grin of pure, refined malice. "Oh, perhaps they will. If we were going to fight them the way you're probably thinking of, almost certainly. But..." She produced a vaguely cylindrical object from the row of them on a belt, "This is a melta bomb of average yield. We're going to put these where those Euphorians are going to be coming from, and when they enter the kill zone - we enjoy ourselves a nice molten barbecue." “Pardon me for a moment Lilith, I need to inform the rest of the squad immediately about this.” Reaching up with her right hand to the helmet of her power armor, Aviza turned on the com inside of it. Quickly attuning it to her squads channel, she began to inform them of the unseen dangers that waited to be detonated. “This is Aviza Norea, I was just informed by Techpriestess Lilith that there are around two hundred melta charges placed inside of the mansion and are currently awaiting detonation. You are all here by ordered to report your status, and then regroup with Lilith and myself at Vastok’s position.” Turning off her com, Aviza turned to face Lilith once more. “You are spot on with the mission details Lilith, so let us carry them out, easier said than done though. I do however like your idea of using metla charges to take out the euphorians in a blazing inferno, I always have enjoyed a good barbecue. “No use standing around and wasting time, let’s prepare for the ambush.” Aviza took cover inside of a room at the end of the hall, motioning for Lilith to do the same. The door was open to the lavishly decorated room they were taking cover in so that they could see when the euphorians arrived and when the ambush could be set in motion. "Wow!" Lilith snarked, "I'm up to date on something for once! Let me take a moment to write that down on this calendar here, so I know that at least one point in this mission I had some idea of what we were doing!" Coughing awkwardly, she continued more seriously, "I can set them for a wide area blast or focused one that'd take out a tank - let me have those back for a second, they're currently set for the latter." She pulled out an unusually shaped tool, twisting it three times on each charge before handing half them back to Aviza. "You can take that side, I assume you know how to maximize their effect." Shifting the remaining ten charges to the bottom of their bandolier, she quickly moved back to the room Aviza was sheltering in. "I have a sneaking suspicion that this Vastok is the one snoring in that rather unsecure room which just happens to be uncomfortably close to the blast zone..." Glancing over at Aviza, she sighed. "That is him, isn't it? We'd just run away otherwise, instead of fighting head on an assault squad of angry women in power armor." She too, however, heard the rapidly approaching thunder of power armored feet slamming against the marble flooring, and abandoned the notion of retrieving him from the room. Readying the detonator, she retrieved her own bolter from its strap and made sure there was a round in the chamber. The sound drew closer, the Euphorians were nearing the bend. Lilith closed her eyes for a moment, and when she opened them time slowed - for her. As the first power armored figure rounded the corner, she waited, and waited, until the entire group was marching in a perfect formation down the hallway. A few more seconds of slow motion and... Lilith pressed the button, and instantaneously bright balls of superheated gas erupted from the charge points, enveloping the Euphorians. She grinned maliciously as the roar of vaporizing water vapor and flesh reached her ears. "What was that about being a challenge to take down?" She shouted over the dying roar of the Euphorians being reduced to... lumps of molten slag. “No shit? That must be quite a first for you, we should celebrate this momentous accomplishment in your history once we arrive back at the safe house. I am sure everyone will be happy to know that you finely managed to be up to date on something important.” Aviza snapped back at Lilith in a strong sarcastic tone. When Lilith asked for the Metla charges back, the Sister of Battle was somewhat hesitant at first but then handed them over and waited for the explosives to be altered. “If the metla charges would explode while you were tampering with them, that would be priceless, then again I would burn alive as well.” Aviza shrugged lightly with a sly smirk spread across her face. Vastok was indeed rather close to the blast zone where they were about to set up the charges, but grabbing the cult leader and making a desperate sprint for the front door would inevitably end with their death. “Yes that is indeed Vastok and I know that he is rather close to the blast zone but he will be fine, the charges will burn everything outside of the room and nothing inside of it, as I am sure you know.” Carefully taking the explosives from Lilith, Aviza sprinted down the hall before cautiously planting each explosive in their own specific location. Returning to Liliths side, Aviza quickly lowered her body against the floor and went prone, readying her heavy bolter. Soon enough, the sound of the heavily armored Euphorians could be heard marching towards Lilith and Aviza’s position. As soon as they appeared, the explosives detonated. Aviza opened fire and held down her trigger finger upon her heavy bolter until the end of the barrel glowed white. The Euphorians were thankfully taken down quickly, their bodies scattered across the hallway in grotesque debris. Closing the visor on her power armor and turning on its filter, Aviza blocked the smell of burning human flesh and chemicals. The hallway had now caught on fire from the explosive rounds and was spreading rapidly, “Now would be a good time to grab Vastok and retreat.” Turning on her com once more, Aviza spoke to her squad to give them updated orders. “Aviza Norea here, belay my last orders and evacuate the mansion immediately, regroup at where we were dropped off.” Standing up, Aviza motioned for Lilith to follow her, “Think you can manage grabbing Vastok while I keep us covered from any other hostiles? - Lilith frowned as Aviza decided to snark about the melta chargees going off in her hands. "I [i]am[/i] a highly trained member of the Adeptus Mechanicus, you realize? The chances of my making an error that will result in these exploding in my face right now are astronomical, about as likely as us surviving in such an eventuality in fact." Now she smirked, finishing her work as she took her own five charges. "And you realize, convection is a thing, yes? I'm not concerned about the gas reaching the room, but I am concerned that the convection of the heat through the air will nonetheless reach it, superheat the air in the room, and kill him all the same. But we don't have the time for that now..." she muttered... - Lilith didn't mind the smell, in all honesty, she had smelled worse anyway. Her lungs were mechanical, so no concern there. "Honestly, Aviza, it doesn't smell that bad. Small whiff of the acrid stench of burning flesh, sure, the pungent tang of chemicals, but really - we've both smelled worse." She nonetheless sprinted for the room, finding to her immense relief that the heat from the bombs had not reached it. Two unconscious bodies lay on the floor - and she grabbed the first one, heaving Vastok over her shoulder and turning to leave before stopping and turning around. Despite heartlessly killing scores of his comrades, she couldn't bring herself to leave the guard to die like that. "Damn this morality thing..." she muttered, and moved back towards him, bending down and scooping the other unconscious man over her shoulder. She ran out of the room and back towards Aviza, "Alright, so, I say we book it." She took off running again, shouting over her shoulder, "Your friends can make it to the main entrance on their own, right?" Aviza sprinted along side Lilith with her heavy bolter in hand, ready to fire at any hostile that may show itself to them. "I have no dobut they will be here shortly, until then we should hold our position and kill any hostiles that approach us." The mansion was quite empty compared to how busy it had been only moments ago, all the gunfire proved to be a great motive to evacuate it the premises. Unbenounced to them, Lucia and her squad of elite Euphorians were currently heading their way to the front of the mansion with Zara tailing behind them.